Ecclesiastes 8:8

The Scriptures 1998

No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it.

Cross References

Psalm 89:48

What man would live and not see death? Who rescues his life from the power of the grave? Selah.

Job 14:5

Since his days are decided, the number of his months is with You, You have appointed his bounds which he does not pass over.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,

Isaiah 28:15

because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we have effected a vision. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it does not come to us, for we have made lying our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, which goes down to the earth?

Proverbs 14:32

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Psalm 9:17

The wrong return to the grave, All the gentiles that forget Elohim.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though He was impaled in weakness, yet He lives by the power of Elohim. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of Elohim toward you.

1 Corinthians 15:43

it is sown in disrespect, it is raised in esteem; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your vision with the grave not stand. When an overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trampled down by it.

Job 34:14

If He sets His heart on him, should He gather to Himself his spirit and his breath,

2 Samuel 14:14

“For we shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him.

2 Kings 7:15

And they went after them to the Yardĕ

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wrongness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For even man does not know his time. Like fish taken in an evil net, and like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it come down on them suddenly.

Isaiah 47:10

“And you have trusted in your evil, you have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray. And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me.’